Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said that, for May, calling the election is "the political equivalent of taking candy from a baby". But despite this, dozens of Labour MPs voted against triggering Article 50 and launching formal negotiations to leave the European Union when the Brexit Bill went to parliament earlier this year. [Full Article...]

Archive reports by French newspaper Le Parisien say that Cheurfi was convicted of attacking a police officer in 2001. The Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack through its Amaq news agency, but investigations by authorities are still underway. [Full Article...]

I'm kicking off our #GeneralElection campaign in one of the constituencies we'll win back to form a government to transform Britain. The Labour leader will launch a Trump-style election campaign today , promising not to play by the rules and launching an attack on the ruling "cosy cartels". [Full Article...]

The Liberals haven't said where party leader Christy Clark will be today but she continued pushing her platform of creating jobs by investing in infrastructure while visiting Maple Ridge on Thursday. The NDP has long argued the project should be subject to a review by the commission, once standard in B.C., but the Liberals clean energy laws allowed some major projects to bypass the regulatory ag... [Full Article...]

He was arrested in Israel in March after a joint investigation by the FBI and Israeli police. A n 18-year-old man who holds dual U.S. A month after his arrest in Israel, Michael Ron David Kadar was charged with 28 counts of making threatening calls and conveying false information to police, according to the indictment filed Friday in federal court in Orlando. [Full Article...]

Barghouti was "instigating mutiny and leading the hunger strike and that is a severe violation of the rules of the prison", said Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. "They were brought to justice and are treated properly under worldwide law". The strike also comes ahead of commemorations this summer marking 50 years since the 1967 Six Day War and the start of Israel's occupation of ... [Full Article...]

Macron said he would hire an additional 10,000 police officers in the next five years and that he would create a task force under the French Presidency to fight ISIS. France has suffered a series of Islamist militant attacks that have killed more than 230 people in the past two years, with the country operating in a state of emergency since 2015. [Full Article...]

In a Facebook Live video Thursday afternoon Ted Nugent rambled on about his visit to the White House at the invitation of President Donald Trump. So is this the saddest day in the history of White House since the British burned it to the ground in 1814? Trump became president despite occasionally deploying Nugent-style rhetoric against Clinton during the campaign. [Full Article...]

The Valencia plant employed some 2,700 workers, but had stopped producing cars in 2015. Daniela Alvarado, 25, who sells vegetables in the El Valle area, said the looting on Thursday night began after police officers fired tear gas and buckshot at demonstrators blocking a street with burning tires. [Full Article...]

As part of its Earth Month 2017 initiative, the City of Buffalo is giving away free trees Wednesday at Niagara Square. Detroit residents can take one tree (just one!). "Arbor Day is that one day every year reminding us to think about all that trees do for us - a day for reflection and for action", Dan Lambe, president of the Arbor Day Foundation, said in a release. [Full Article...]

Trump was asked about the shooting Thursday during a press conference with the Italian prime minister - he said it "looks like another terrorist attack" and added , "What can you say?" "It shouldn't have been signed". He said his administration would have more to say about the arrangement in the near future. In a letter notifying Congress of the 90-day interagency review, Tillerson said t... [Full Article...]

Kulbhusan Sundir Jadhav alias Hussein Mubarak Patel was arrested on March 3, 2016 , through a Counter-Intelligence Operation from Mashkel area of Balochistan for his involvement in espionage and sabotage actives in Pakistan. "In any case, we will not tolerate this", Bhamre said. India has not received any report from the Iranian government on this issue even through they said they were conducti... [Full Article...]

He dismissed the PM's argument that she needs a fresh mandate to deliver Brexit, and said it was "extremely interesting" she had called for an election as the Crown Prosecution Service decides whether to press charges against a number of Tory MPs over allegations relating to 2015 election expenses. [Full Article...]

French conservative politician Francois Fillon, a candidate in France's presidential election , says campaigning should be suspended following the shooting in Paris . The shooting comes three days before French general elections and Paris was already in a state of heightened alert. The broad avenues leading to the Arc de Triomphe were filled with police vehicles flashing blue lights. [Full Article...]

The first-leg matches will be on Thursday May 4, with the returns taking place the following week. Former Liverpool striker Iago Aspas is their top scorer with 23 goals this season, including five in the Europa League . "I believe we have a chance of progressing and I'm sure that we'll fight and we'll have our opportunities". Based in a city of around 300,000 people in the northeastern region... [Full Article...]

On April 16, the security at worldwide airports in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai was put on maximum alert after the police forces of Maharashtra, Telangana and Tamil Nadu and the CISF were informed about a possible aircraft hijack attempt. [Full Article...]

British media said he also went by the alias Adrian Elms - a name he used in 2000 when he was sentenced to two years in jail for slashing a man's face in the Sussex village of Northiam, not far from where he grew up. The embassy said Saudi security services didn't track Masood and he didn't have a criminal record there. Masood checked the app at 2:37 p.m. Wednesday - just three minutes before ... [Full Article...]

Justices on Thursday denied the request to halt the planned execution of Ledell Lee. The situation is a familiar one for Rebecca Petty, whose daughter's killer was granted a reprieve by federal courts hours before his execution in 2004. But the first two executions, which were slated for Monday night, were stayed pending the outcome of a completely separate U.S. Supreme Court case about whether ... [Full Article...]

Speaking at First Minister's Questions on Thursday, Sturgeon said: "The idea in this election that Labour is going to replace the Conservatives is frankly pie in the sky". Mr Corbyn made the remark after being asked whether he would step down if Labour lost on 8 June. The Labour leader cast the June 8 poll as a battle of "the Establishment versus the people", as he promised to overturn a "rigged... [Full Article...]

The stakes for investors are high, with two anti-European Union, anti-euro candidates - the far-right Marine Le Pen and the far-left Jean-Luc Melenchon - among the top four. Sterling stole center stage in Asia on Wednesday amid speculation Britain's surprise decision to call a snap election could ultimately deliver a more market-friendly outcome in its divorce from the European Union. [Full Article...]